Many people utilize Voice recorders to capture any fresh thoughts or crucial information when they are unable to write something down. Audio transcription services can be used to transform these voice recordings into text format. Mobile phones such as iPhones have an app called Voice memos that can be used to record any personal notes.  The sound recording is of very good quality. Additionally, you can send and save audio files to Windows PCs, Mac laptops, and other iPhone or Android smartphone users.

The capabilities of our phones have advanced beyond what many people could even have imagined twenty years ago due to technological advances like GPS, barcode readers, facial recognition, video recording, and virtual assistants. Voice recording is one of the most useful features our phones offer, despite the fact that it may appear unimportant in comparison to Siri or Google Maps. We no longer need to carry a separate recording device or search for a pen and paper when we want to take fast notes or record an important message because of this technology.

People’s lives are made simpler in many ways by voice memos. You can record crucial events like meetings, business discussions, interviews, lectures, and long phone conversations that can subsequently be converted from audio to text, so you can save more than just fleeting thoughts. The Voice Memos app for the iPhone and iPad records audio using the internal microphone and saves it as audio files in the .m4a format. However, audio transcription is not supported by this audio recorder. As a result, we must manually transcribe audio files, play the audio from an iOS device, then enter in a text editor on a computer like Microsoft Word, Notes, or Notepad. So, we can transcribe what we say with the use of dictation software and intelligent audio recorders with automated or machine transcription.

Quick Steps to Transcribe Voice Memos into Text

To transcribe any voice recording, you can either download an app from the App store and transcribe, or rely on third party transcription services that can help you transcribe each recording word by word.

For instance, to transcribe using as app called Just Press Record,run the app from the App store. Change the Storage Location setting from This iPhone to iCloud Drive by tapping Settings at the bottom right corner. Click the Done button to go back to the main interface. Try using this recorder software to capture a brief speech clip and then access your iPhone’s default Files app. Now that you’ve navigated to iCloud Drive > Just Press Record, you can see a brand-new folder with the name of the present day. This folder now contains the recording that you just made.

Open the Voice Memos app, select the audio file you wish to transcribe, scroll left to reveal More Actions, press on it to reveal the actions menu, and then select Save to Files from that menu. Browse to the Just Press Record app’s output folder mentioned above and save the voice memo there.

Bring the external recorder app forward. The imported voice memo or sound recording should be found in the output folder in iCloud Drive by using the Recents tab or switching to the Browse tab. To access the toolbar underneath the external recording file, tap on it. To turn the voice memo or audio recording into searchable text, select Transcribe.

Easy Tips for Transcribing iPhone Voice Memos

• To use your device’s machine transcription to transcribe your voice memos and recordings online, connect it to the internet while transcription is taking place.
• Ensure that the recorder app’s settings are set to the appropriate transcription language. Otherwise, a precise transcription of your voice and speech is impossible.

Uses of Converting Voice Recordings to Text Format

• If you frequently record your voice, you could have also had to convert the audio file to text. This can be used for a variety of things, depending on what you originally recorded.
• Most of the time, more visual learners would rather read text than listen to a recording.
• Audio files require more storage than text-based files.
• Audio files require more bandwidth to send and download, but text-based files are simpler to share.
• Text is easier to skim than audio in order to get what you want or get the gist of anything.
• Audio files cannot be combined or edited as easily as text can.

Two Ways to Transcribe Your Voice Recordings to Text

With today’s technology, you have a wide range of options to choose from when converting your audio notes into text, depending on your requirements, such as price, turnaround time etc. Unfortunately, there are so many alternatives that it can be difficult to decide, and not all solutions are equally good.

Typically, you have two options when you need to convert (or transcribe) audio recordings into text, to either go for automatic, software-based services, or utilize a reliable audio transcription service. These options offer different benefits. Usually, computer-based transcribing is quicker and frequently less expensive per audio minute. To avoid confusion, the findings are frequently less precise and may need a lot of editing and changes. However, audio transcription services take a little longer to complete but produce significantly more reliable results. Professional transcriptionists are more adept at deciphering accents, slang, proper names, and instances in which two speakers are speaking over one another. Filler words like “ums,” which could mess up software-based transcribing, can be removed. So, this ensures a much more accurate and clearer transcript of your phone recordings.